Members of the Board of Directors

Members of the Board of Directors

René Branchaud – Chairman of the Board & Corporate Secretary

René Branchaud has been practicing law since 1983. He is a partner with the law firm Lavery, de Billy and practices in the areas of securities law, mergers and acquisitions and corporate law. He assists companies in connection with their incorporation, corporate structure, shareholders’ agreements, private placements, public offerings, stock exchange listings as well as dispositions and takeovers.

He is also on the Board of Directors of several public corporations and also site on the Board of Directors of several public corporations and also serves on several committees of the board of directors, including corporate governance committees and ad hoc committees created for specific transactions (mergers, takeovers). In addition, he advises directors who sit on ad hoc committees.

Dr. Elena Clarici – Director (independent)(3)(4)

Dr. Elena Clarici is a mining engineer, with a B.Eng in mining gained at University of Belgrade in 1989. She also holds a PhD in Mining and Environmental Engineering from the Royal School of Mines of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, obtained in 1994. She is founder, president and CEO of Micah Minerals Corp., a Canadian private company, since 2016. From 2013 to 2015, she has been a director and Board Member of TSX-V listed Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd, and briefly interim CEO in 2014. She is a former chair of Association of Mining Analysts and a regular contributor to financial and mining media.

Noureddine Mokaddem – Founder, President & CEO, Director

Mr. Mokaddem has held senior positions at YNNA Holding, ONA Group and OCP Group. He has played an important role in the development of several major mining operations, such as the Akka gold mine and the Guemassa complex in Morocco. Mr. Mokaddem holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the State School of Engineers, in Mons, Belgium.

Nikolaos Sofronis – Director (independent)

Mr. Sofronis is Director of Irini Investment of Luxembourg and has over 18 years of private equity experience in mining and biotechnology sectors.

Robert Taub – Director (independent)

Mr. Taub holds a BA in Languages from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France). He is an entrepreneur in the Life Science field and investor in several pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Mr. Taub was the CEO of a NASDAQ listed company which he had founded and is currently an investor and Chairman of another NASDAQ company.

R. Martin Wong – Director (independent)

Mr. Wong is a seasoned financier and a member of the Ordre des comptables agréés du Québec. He has been involved in auditing, tax planning and debt restructuring and the right-sizing of operating companies in the resource, manufacturing, consumer product, and life science industries.

For the last five years, he has acted as an independent capital markets advisor to public companies as well as the Executive Chairman of a biotech research and product development company, in support of translational immunology research in oncology, neuroscience and microbiology.

Before that, Mr. Wong was with Dundee Securities Corporation’s Investment Banking group, where he structured, developed and completed a range of capital market transactions, including public offerings, capital market equity issues, and merger and acquisitions. He provided financial advisory services to the resource (mining and oil) industry, airlines, and real estate entities. He has been on both the buy and sell side of the investment industry. Martin’s recent accomplishments include IPOs of mining companies, and treasury equity issues of Canadian listed companies, the development of takeover defense strategies, acquisitions and capital market advisory mandates.

Mr. Wong a co-founder and managing partner at Milton Capital Partners Limited a capital markets boutique advisor, is a CPA CA and is accredited in real estate finance from UBC.